European Jewish Congress-Newsletter 02-05 September 2018
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Comunidad Judía
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25 Elul 5778 – 5 September, 2018
| LABOUR MUST USE ITS ADOPTION OF IHRA DEFINITION TO ROOT OUT ITS OWN INSTITUTIONAL ANTISEMITISM
The European Jewish Congress notes the overdue decision by the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee to adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism in full but deeply regrets the added comments made at the NEC that imply the IHRA rejects free speech on criticising Israel.
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 |
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| CORBYN ALLY RE-ELECTED TO LABOUR’S NEC DESPITE ANTISEMITIC RANT
An ally of Jeremy Corbyn who attacked some Jews as “Trump fanatics” has been re-elected to the Labour Party’s ruling body, despite left-wing grassroots group Momentum withdrawing its support.
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 |
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| ANTISEMITIC ATTACK ON PARIS’ ALEXANDRE III BRIDGE
A Jewish man was beaten down and robbed by a group of men on scooters on Paris’ Alexandre III bridge.
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 |
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| CRIF LEADER BLASTS POLITICIAN FOR CALLING PRESIDENT MACRON “PRESIDENT ROTHSCHILD”
Francis Kalifat, president of the CRIF, condemned the antisemitic rhetoric of a leading centre-right politician who called the republic’s leader “President Rothschild.”
Monday, September 3, 2018 |
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| HUGE CROWDS ATTEND GERMAN ANTI-RACISM DEMONSTRATION AS MERKEL URGES PEOPLE TO SPEAK OUT
Tens of thousands of people attended an anti-racism concert in protest against xenophobic mobs that ran rampage in the city of Chemnitz last week.
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 |
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| FAR-RIGHT GERMAN AFD GROUP DISRUPTS TOUR OF SACHSENHAUSEN DEATH CAMP
A tour of Sachsenhausen was disrupted by far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) visitors. Members of the group reportedly uttered “manifestly far-right and historically revisionist” interjections.
Monday, September 3, 2018 |
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| ITALY’S UNIVERSITIES TO APOLOGISE FOR ANTI-JEWISH LAWS
Eighty years later after Italy’s infamous racial laws, the deans of all 83 major Italian universities will gather in Pisa to apologise to the country’s Jewish community.
Monday, September 3, 2018 |
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| ISRAEL WELCOMES US DE-FUNDING OF UNRWA AS STEP FOR PEACE
Israel welcomed the United States’ decision to cut its funding to UNRWA as a positive step forward in the peace process.
Monday, September 3, 2018 |
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| ISRAEL BANS ENTRY OF SUKKOT-RELATED PLANTS OVER DISEASE FEARS
The Agriculture Ministry said the ban on three of the four species is rooted in the need to prevent the spread of plant diseases and pests rather than any protectionist policy.
Monday, September 3, 2018 |
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